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		<p class="purpose">An intermediate layer for building code in Inter. This is version 1.</p>
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						<span class="chaptertitle">Preliminaries</span></p>
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							<p class="sectionentry"><a href="P-wtmd.html">
								<spon class="sectiontitle">What This Module Does</span></a> -
							<span class="sectionpurpose">An overview of the building module's role and abilities.</span></p>
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						<span class="chaptertitle">Chapter 1: Architecture</span></p>
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							<p class="sectionentry"><a href="1-bm.html">
								<spon class="sectiontitle">Building Module</span></a> -
							<span class="sectionpurpose">Setting up the use of this module.</span></p>
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								<spon class="sectiontitle">Large-Scale Structure</span></a> -
							<span class="sectionpurpose">To manage the main, connectors and architecture packages of an Inter tree, together with its major building blocks: modules and their submodules.</span></p>
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								<spon class="sectiontitle">Inter Primitives</span></a> -
							<span class="sectionpurpose">The standard set of primitive invocations available in Inter code as generated by the Inform tool-chain.</span></p>
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							<p class="sectionentry"><a href="1-org.html">
								<spon class="sectiontitle">Origins</span></a> -
							<span class="sectionpurpose">Keeping track of sources of code for an Inter tree.</span></p>
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								<spon class="sectiontitle">Hierarchy Locations</span></a> -
							<span class="sectionpurpose">Location and naming rules for resources to be compiled in an Inter hierarchy.</span></p>
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							<p class="sectionentry"><a href="1-lr.html">
								<spon class="sectiontitle">Location Requirements</span></a> -
							<span class="sectionpurpose">A way to express rules for the permitted places where inames and packages are allowed to appear in the Inter hierarchy.</span></p>
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								<spon class="sectiontitle">Translation</span></a> -
							<span class="sectionpurpose">A way to express rules for how to translate names from the Inter namespace into the target language's namespace.</span></p>
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								<spon class="sectiontitle">Packaging</span></a> -
							<span class="sectionpurpose">To manage references to Inter packages which may or may not yet exist.</span></p>
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								<spon class="sectiontitle">Inter Namespace</span></a> -
							<span class="sectionpurpose">To manage references to Inter symbols which may or may not yet exist.</span></p>
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						<span class="chaptertitle">Chapter 2: Blueprints</span></p>
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								<spon class="sectiontitle">Inter Schemas</span></a> -
							<span class="sectionpurpose">Building an inter schema, a form of annotated syntax tree.</span></p>
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								<spon class="sectiontitle">Parsing Inter Schemas</span></a> -
							<span class="sectionpurpose">A simple API for turning textual code written in Inform 6 syntax into an inter schema.</span></p>
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								<spon class="sectiontitle">Tokenisation</span></a> -
							<span class="sectionpurpose">Turning textual code written in Inform 6 syntax into a linked list of tokens.</span></p>
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								<spon class="sectiontitle">Ramification</span></a> -
							<span class="sectionpurpose">Turning textual code written in Inform 6 syntax into an inter schema.</span></p>
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								<spon class="sectiontitle">Inform 6 Operators</span></a> -
							<span class="sectionpurpose">Order of precedence for Inform 6 operators, regarded as their Inter primitive equivalents.</span></p>
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							<p class="sectionentry"><a href="2-eis.html">
								<spon class="sectiontitle">Emitting Inter Schemas</span></a> -
							<span class="sectionpurpose">To compile Inter code following the model in an Inter schema tree.</span></p>
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								<spon class="sectiontitle">Identifier Finders</span></a> -
							<span class="sectionpurpose">Suppose we have an identifier name which we think refers to some symbol in an Inter tree. Where do we look for it?</span></p>
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								<spon class="sectiontitle">Inform 6 Annotations</span></a> -
							<span class="sectionpurpose">Parsing Inform 6-syntax annotation markers.</span></p>
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								<spon class="sectiontitle">Inform 6 Syntax Errors</span></a> -
							<span class="sectionpurpose">To issue problem messages when parsing malformed I6-syntax code.</span></p>
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						<span class="chaptertitle">Chapter 3: Masonry</span></p>
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								<spon class="sectiontitle">Produce</span></a> -
							<span class="sectionpurpose">Convenient machinery for generating individual Inter instructions.</span></p>
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								<spon class="sectiontitle">Value Holsters</span></a> -
							<span class="sectionpurpose">Representing compilation contexts, and holding compiled values.</span></p>
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